Saturday, September 26, 2009

Gems

This blog, Distilling Thoughts, is one of the finalists for this year’s Philippine Blog Awards under the Best Photo Blog Category. This is my way of saying thanks to everyone.

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One of my friends, make it two actually, broke this news at plurk. It may sound cheesy, but I do consider this nomination as a personal gem already. And I believe most, if not all, of the nominees feel the same way. Philippine Blogosphere (not my original term) is one of the most colorful and creative blogospheres in cyberworld. And I can attest to that. If you have time, kindly visit the sites of the other nominees and you’ll see what I mean. And not only that, there are other blogs that are not nominated that are worth visiting. Hmm, how can I provide the links? Start looking at the sidebar.

Two years ago, I started this blog as a result of a dare by a friend. We were both in bumhood during those times so we challenged ourselves to write something, a piece or two each week. To compensate my deficient vocabulary, I decided to include at least one photo, taken by me, on every entry I post. And as they always say, the rest is history. Through this blog, I have gained lots of friends and had inspired some to start blogging too, at least I know one. LOL! Special thanks to all the readers and visitors of this humble blog, really appreciate it. Shout-out to those responsible bloggers who nominated this blog, do I have to mention your names? Haha! Thanks for the trust.

Come October 9, the winners for each category will be revealed. No matter what the results will be, I am already very thankful and humbled by this nomination.

Congratulations to all the nominees, the organizers of PBA and of course to all bloggers who continuously make blogging world interesting and inspiring. You just don’t know how you encourage me to do better. You are all gems.

46 comments:

congratulations toto!!! sooo exciting and happy for you! is there any way i can vote?? and deficient vocabulary?? what are you talking about. haha you write good english. and even deficient is kind of an advanced word, no? i definitely agree the philippine (pinoy?) blogosphere is colorful. there's a lot of us! am i considered to be part even though i live in the US? hmm. but next year i'm moving to the philippines :) and.. i'd love to connect with more filipino bloggers.

congratulations John, best of luck in your photography and blogging. again, you actually are one of those who inspired me to blog, reading your posts in your blog made me also think of sharing my thoughts :)